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OpenStudy (horsegal244):

Ruiz needs to buy a countertop for a kitchen. He calculated the area to be 16 square feet. The actual area is 15.4 square feet. What is Ruiz's percentage error?

OpenStudy (horsegal244):

here are answers

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So the 16 is the 100% The error was 15.4 You can use the cross multiply here. (15.4(100)) / 16 = 96.25% 100 - 96.25 = 3.75% of error Second one

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Did you got it?

OpenStudy (horsegal244):

yeah

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